Winners at Litchfield

Spring Break Tennis Week Four Schedule is an attachment -- story below

TENNIS E-News

Mar. 16, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 27
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Brady, Whitlow Win Singles, Iannuzzi/Young Take Doubles Championships at Litchfield

PAWLEYS ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- It's sort of the state senior clay court championships, but without the depth of draws of the official fall State Closed. The A. Foster McKissick Tennis Tournament found Keith Whitlow of Hilton Head Island and Steve Brady of Bluffton winning singles championships at the Litchfield Racquet Club. HHIslanders Hank Iannuzzi and Bryce Young won in doubles.

Brady defeated John Stone of Pinehurst NC 6-0, 6-1 to clinch his third match and losing only eight games in the Men's 50 singles round robin. In Men's 60 singles, #1 seed Whitlow defeated HHI's Joe O'Rourke 6-4, 6-2 in Saturday's semifinals and then took John Silvers of Columbia 6-2; 6-1 in the final today.

Top-seeded Iannuzzi and Young defeated Richard Ames/John Silvers of Columbia 6-1, 5-7, 6-1 for the Men's 60 championship.

In Men's 75 singles, #2 Joe Roberts of Greenville defeated topseed Bob Wiederhorn of Bluffton 6-3, 6-4. The #2-seeded Bradley Watkins of Columbia upset #1 Tom Jilly of Hilton Head Island 6-3, 6-4 in the Men's 45 final. Jilly and Brady teamed in the 45s doubles, losing in the final 6-3, 6-4 to Frederick McKay of Mount Pleasant and Greg Miller of Rock Hill.

Three other HHIslanders were semifinalists: Bob Cooke in the 45s, Frank Meade in the 75s and Lee Butler in the 80s.

"Slow" Week on Schedule for Spring Break Tennis College Teams: Only 1,000 Matches

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The intercollegiate Spring Break Tennis 2008 will have an "off" week but still play more than 1,000 individual matches this week on Hilton Head Island and a few other nearby court complexes. A free exhibition will be played at 5:30 p.m. Monday at South Beach Racquet Club.

It's the fourth of five weeks of the college team competition. All team matches include six singles and three doubles and are open free to spectators. Colleges represented are from the far Northeast to Minnesota and Wisconsin to Nebraska to Mississippi and throughout the mid-South.

The complete week's schedule with match sites is an attachment to this issue. Daily schedules and results appear in The Island Packet Sports Scores section.

USTA LEAGUE STANDINGS

Here is the rundown of Senior League teams in TennisLink as of the Saturday (3/15):

Senior # teams

2.5M -- 6 teams -- Country Club of HH Court Jesters lead at 6-0

2.5W -- 3 teams -- Sun City Rally Girls lead at 4-1

3.0M -- 22 teams -- Sea Pines CC Cardinals lead at 6-1 in Flight I; Shipyard Rockets are at 6-1; Country Club of HH Hustlers are at 5-0 in Flight II

3.0W -- 19 teams -- Dataw Darlins lead at 6-0 in Flight I; Beaufort Low Country Lobsters lead at 5-1 in Flight II

3.5M -- 19 teams -- Indigo Run Gold Bear Claws, Sun City Spin Doctors tied at 6-0 in Flight I; Palmetto Dunes Wannabees lead at 6-0 in Flight II

3.5W -- 24 teams -- Port Royal Glory Girls, SC Yacht Nauti-Gals tied at 8-0 in Flight I; Spring Lake Roaring Rackets lead at 7-1 in Flight II

4.0M -- 6 teams -- Port Royal leads at 6-0

4.0W -- 6 teams -- Sun City Sunsationals lead at 6-1

4.5M -- 2 teams -- TBA

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